Damn Texas Bad Crap Starts There. Texan GOPPERS Can Go To Hell. The Sooner The Better.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Just watched Antiques Road Show and a lady who was part of the Kennedy press office in 1963. She recounted her experience when Kennedy was assassinated. She was on Air Force One the day it happened in Dallas. She had to go back to Washing on the second back up plane.

She commented to the person evaluating her Kennedy archive that a Texas delegation was on that plane that a number of these Texans WERE GLAD THAT KENNEDY HAD BEEN ASSASSINATED.

[niyad]

1. does this surprise anyone?

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

3. A Democratic President Killed in a Democratic State

At the time, anyway. I think those with the strongest dislike of Kennedy were the fundie Catholic bashers.

I was a child at the time, and lived in another state, but I know the type well.

[dem in texas]

4. Dallas was a bed of right-winger hate in those days

Kennedy had been warned not to go to Dallas. Lots of the old white rich men, including H.L. Hunt were super right wingers who belonged to the John Birch Society. Lots of hate in Dallas at that time. There was a terrible full page ad taken out in one Dallas paper against Kennedy, either on the day before on the same day he was killed

As they rode in the open car, Governor Connally's wife had just made the remark to President Kennedy that he couldn't say they didn't like him in Dallas when he was shot.

Several years earlier, a group of Republican ladies spit on LBJ and Lady Bird as they arrived at a Dallas hotel. A month before Kennedy was killed, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson with mobbed in Dallas by right wingers and hit in the head with a sign by one of the protesters.

[dhill926]

2. plenty of folks where I grew up in Illinois, were as well....

[peequod]

5. I knew a librarian...

...who once told me a story about him attending a state college in Louisiana at the time of the assassination. When an announcement over the loud speaker informed everyone that the president had been shot and killed, he said a number of guys stood up and started hooting and clapping. Sounds like the South was a violent place in '63...

[tibbir]

8. Don't Judge us all by a Noisy Few

I'm a Texan who was attending junior high in a New Orleans suburb when Kennedy was assassinated. Not one person said or did anything the slightest bit inappropriate when we found out, in fact, many of us cried besides being in complete shock.

It would be a whole lot nicer for me if the mostly enlightened people who post on DU would try to keep from treating all of the residents of red states as if we're all of like minds. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've lived in Texas and the South all my life and I'm as progressive as just about anyone here.

Thank you for your consideration.

[topological]

6. And she was on TV, so it must be true. nt

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. She Was Working At The Press Office And Had A PERSONAL Archive.

She had been on Air Force One and had to go back to the second plane where the Texas delegation was one that plane. I doubt she was hard of hearing or misunderstood. She worked in the press office and traveled with Kennedy on AF One. And there was picture of her with the President on one of his trips.